West-Europese adel » Henriëtte Eleonore Christine van Mansbach (1743-1785)

Day of marriage April 3, 1764

• The temperature on April 3, 1764 was about 10.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: donker regen. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
  • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
  • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
  • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of death June 14, 1785

• The temperature on June 14, 1785 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1785: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
  • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
  • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
  • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1746 » Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
• 1794 » Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1718)
• 1800 » Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (b. 1753)
• 1800 » Louis Desaix, French general (b. 1768)
• 1801 » Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (b. 1741)
• 1825 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)